There are some ideas here, which is good, I'm glad to see soem interest. But maybe I need to clarify some things to make what I am really looking for more clear.
Like I said before, this is for my parents. My parents aren't computer savvy, therefore I am the family IT manager. I want a minimum of things that can go wrong but make it super easy to use. I would like to be able to initiate the remote connection from the SB3 and also be able to browse the remote library as if it were a local library. I do understand the slow changing tracks, that's due to buffering. I see it with SoftSqueeze. To be able to browse the remote music collection the remote SS would have to send the track data formatted for the local SS to format it for the local player. I prefer Artist - Album but my parents may like something else. I don't want to shove my preferred format down their throat if that's not what they want. SS must pass the tag info, something which current stream.mp3 streaming won't do as effectively. That's why I believe so much that this needs to be a seperate plugin, because there are a few caveats to doing this where the local SS needs to control the local player but needs to parse specially formatted data from the remote SS to keep everything looking consistent with the local users' preferences. For a wider audience, who don't have a static IP address, the ability to resolve a hostname would be important, especially if using dyndns or other similar services. I have a static IP address, so that's no issue for me. My parents have a dynamic IP address, so IP address filtering comes down to the block of addresses my ISP has, not ideal. Integrated SSH may not be required as long as putty or or similar tunneling tools can keep a persistent connection. It would also need to be able to reconnect if the remote server goes down (it is Windows, you have to reboot for EVERYTHING). Even with that, the plugin would need to make periodic checks for the remote SS availability and if it's not available show it unavailable and have an option to notify when it is. -- 4mula1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30331 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
